Features¶
Networking capabilities provided by OVN-Kubernetes.
User-defined networks, network segmentation, and cross-network connectivity.
NetworkPolicy, AdminNetworkPolicy, and EgressFirewall enforcement via OVN ACLs.
Control how traffic leaves the cluster with EgressIP, EgressService, and EgressQoS.
Infrastructure Security Controls
Node-level identity and security mechanisms.
Attach pods to multiple networks with multi-homing and multi-network policies.
IGMP snooping and multicast relay support via OVN.
DSCP marking and traffic shaping for pod network traffic.
Persistent IPs and seamless networking for KubeVirt VM live migrations.
Mixed Windows/Linux cluster networking using VXLAN tunnels.
Automatically adjust OVS datapath thread CPU pinning based on load.
Offload OVS datapath processing to SmartNICs and DPUs.
Route advertisements, no-overlay routing, and EVPN support via BGP.